Bill Text: CA SB1457 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: State facilities: alternative project delivery methods.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-06-24 - Placed on inactive file on request of Senator Cogdill. [SB1457 Detail]

Download: California-2009-SB1457-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1457	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Cogdill

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act to amend Section 11120 of the Government Code, relating to
open meetings.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1457, as introduced, Cogdill. Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act.
   Existing law creates the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act, which
requires that all meetings of a state body be open and public and
that all persons be permitted to attend any meeting of a state body,
with specified exceptions. Existing law makes a declaration of public
policy in this regard.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change in the
declaration of public policy described above.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 11120 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   11120.  It is the public policy of this state that public agencies
exist to aid in the conduct of the people's business and  that
 the proceedings of public agencies be conducted openly so that
the public may remain informed.
   In enacting this article the Legislature finds and declares that
it is the intent of the law that actions of state agencies be taken
openly and that their deliberation be conducted openly.
   The people of this state do not yield their sovereignty to the
agencies which serve them. The people, in delegating authority, do
not give their public servants the right to decide what is good for
the people to know and what is not good for them to know. The people
insist on remaining informed so that they may retain control over the
instruments they have created.
   This article shall be known and may be cited as the Bagley-Keene
Open Meeting Act.